Would it be possible to get some practical tips on each step Drew? What is a simple thing I can actually do to achieve each step? For example, Dr Weekes says we should think about each symptom. I think she means analyse them as they happen and this will help with accepting them.
I would absolutely NOT analyze symptoms beyond simply acknowledging that they exist. As for tips, there are 200+ podcast episode and three books with that information in them. Almost everything I write or say is in some way about how to do this. :-)
The symptoms…..ugh! Which comes first the symptom or the anxiety? It’s a never ending circle of fear in my mind. They feed each other. I’m getting better at accepting they won’t hurt me. The fear that lingers is the same as someone else wrote… the long term health affects of prolonged anxiety and it’s symptoms. I will keep going and I insist on getting there! Thanks for all you do!
Yup! It is true. It is simple. It is equally difficult. One thing I have found is that sometimes one symptom stops and another will pop up. Then the process starts over. Or you believe you’re not fearing and not particularly caring about a symptom and it just will not quit. So you do something that helps, like a meditation, a warm shower, a nap. A timeline for recovery would be nice, but I know that doesn’t exist either. I don’t even talk about my symptoms with my family much anymore. There’s no point. I cancelled the last doctor’s appointment I had about them with a neurologist. I purposely write down all the diseases I do not have in my journal so I stop scaring myself about them. And no more googling. I am increasing work hours. It’s been only a couple of weeks but they still persist. I keep refusing to let them stop my life. There are times I think, they really will end for good. Then sometimes I am not 100% sure. But my only other choice is to go into fear again and that is not living. So I will continue the journey.
Who knew you could get done raising kids and get handed an even harder job? Lol
I relate so much to you my friend. I have a horrible weird head sensations and headaches and have gotten an MRI done a year ago. The fear is what makes it stay alive, I am trying! 😭
I find this very reassuring until I realise my resistance in acceptance of anxiety symptoms not being harmful or damaging comes from googling that very statement and EVERY single article opposes this idea. They all suggest prolonged and sustained anxiety contributes to many dire health outcomes including heart disease so then I am lost in anxious thoughts about how much damage I’m doing to my body everyday . Drew is there any way you are able to address this with a medical professional so as to give some hopeful clarity? Or perhaps you have already and can direct me, thanks so much
Consider for a minute that the idea that you must confirm that this is harmful or not is actually creating the thing that you worry is harmful. Want to be totally sure that it's not harmful to you? Then let it be harmful without resistance and live to the best of your ability regardless. Its totally paradoxical and counterintuitive but the insistence that you must protect yourself through worry, thinking, Googling, research, etc. does exactly the OPPOSITE. And really, I could walk 15 doctors through the podcast to talk about this, but the minute you see one article that contradicts the info, the podcast episodes become worthless.
A VALUABLE reminder and summary of the key messaging/explanations in your books. It amazes me (& frustrates no end) how I can read all these valuable volumes and STILL forget this basic principle in the moment(s) lol. Still hovering around Step 2, argh, need to put this episode on ‘speed dial’ to serve as a regular essential reminder😁
Let it be true without resistance. Which I know is VERY scary and requires bravery. But when it winds up to not be true again and again and again ... your mind gets the lesson. There is no way to "tell" it. You must SHOW it.
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Would it be possible to get some practical tips on each step Drew? What is a simple thing I can actually do to achieve each step? For example, Dr Weekes says we should think about each symptom. I think she means analyse them as they happen and this will help with accepting them.
Appreciate all the help you give folk!
I would absolutely NOT analyze symptoms beyond simply acknowledging that they exist. As for tips, there are 200+ podcast episode and three books with that information in them. Almost everything I write or say is in some way about how to do this. :-)
Thanks, enjoying the podcasts
The symptoms…..ugh! Which comes first the symptom or the anxiety? It’s a never ending circle of fear in my mind. They feed each other. I’m getting better at accepting they won’t hurt me. The fear that lingers is the same as someone else wrote… the long term health affects of prolonged anxiety and it’s symptoms. I will keep going and I insist on getting there! Thanks for all you do!
How true Drew! Since accepting and letting go things improve each step of the way. Love you Big Guy
Yup! It is true. It is simple. It is equally difficult. One thing I have found is that sometimes one symptom stops and another will pop up. Then the process starts over. Or you believe you’re not fearing and not particularly caring about a symptom and it just will not quit. So you do something that helps, like a meditation, a warm shower, a nap. A timeline for recovery would be nice, but I know that doesn’t exist either. I don’t even talk about my symptoms with my family much anymore. There’s no point. I cancelled the last doctor’s appointment I had about them with a neurologist. I purposely write down all the diseases I do not have in my journal so I stop scaring myself about them. And no more googling. I am increasing work hours. It’s been only a couple of weeks but they still persist. I keep refusing to let them stop my life. There are times I think, they really will end for good. Then sometimes I am not 100% sure. But my only other choice is to go into fear again and that is not living. So I will continue the journey.
Who knew you could get done raising kids and get handed an even harder job? Lol
I relate so much to you my friend. I have a horrible weird head sensations and headaches and have gotten an MRI done a year ago. The fear is what makes it stay alive, I am trying! 😭
I find this very reassuring until I realise my resistance in acceptance of anxiety symptoms not being harmful or damaging comes from googling that very statement and EVERY single article opposes this idea. They all suggest prolonged and sustained anxiety contributes to many dire health outcomes including heart disease so then I am lost in anxious thoughts about how much damage I’m doing to my body everyday . Drew is there any way you are able to address this with a medical professional so as to give some hopeful clarity? Or perhaps you have already and can direct me, thanks so much
Consider for a minute that the idea that you must confirm that this is harmful or not is actually creating the thing that you worry is harmful. Want to be totally sure that it's not harmful to you? Then let it be harmful without resistance and live to the best of your ability regardless. Its totally paradoxical and counterintuitive but the insistence that you must protect yourself through worry, thinking, Googling, research, etc. does exactly the OPPOSITE. And really, I could walk 15 doctors through the podcast to talk about this, but the minute you see one article that contradicts the info, the podcast episodes become worthless.
A VALUABLE reminder and summary of the key messaging/explanations in your books. It amazes me (& frustrates no end) how I can read all these valuable volumes and STILL forget this basic principle in the moment(s) lol. Still hovering around Step 2, argh, need to put this episode on ‘speed dial’ to serve as a regular essential reminder😁
Drew how to stop our mind from telling us lies like dying when it’s not true!
Let it be true without resistance. Which I know is VERY scary and requires bravery. But when it winds up to not be true again and again and again ... your mind gets the lesson. There is no way to "tell" it. You must SHOW it.